Trillan & Kyrkvägar
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Forest and trade way (green track on the map)
1. Medskog. The name probably comes from the location
in the middle of the forest along the mediaval way between Frykenvalley
and Klarälvvalley.
2. Nolbergsviken. Here the soldiers of Carl the XII rested
on the march against Norway. In the soil horseshoes, stirrups and coins
were found 1912.
3. Gårdsjöälven. Here the river flows
into lake Visten. In former times it probably was the border to Norway.
4. Enkulsberget. On the hill rests of an old fort are
found.
5. The farms Stor Sten and Lill Sten.
Probably they got their names through their neighbourhood to the fort
on the hill Enkulsberg. On the meadows it was fought a long time ago.
6. Bergvik. A crofters holding built by Emil Gustavsson.
Here the boats on lake Visten landed and a winter way led on the ice.
7. Sjötorp. Here was a store. Goods were stored
and fetched by boat.
8. Here the so called enclave belonging to Skagsjö
was situated. It was a grazing land where the horses could graze while
people were fishing in the lake.
9. Bråten. Here lived a man who worked by a day
for a farmer, which was called „Spaderknekt“. The man didn’t
know that he had a child with the wife of the farmer. When his son was
grown up and proposed to the women of which he thought that she was the
daughter of the „Spaderknekt“ the truth came out. But the
man in Bråten said to his justification, that it was his duty as
a farm hand to defend the married life of his master. When the real man
not was enough the farm hand had to help.
10. Kuj-Brôten. The house was the habitation of
Karamell-August and his sister Tilda; the mother was called Painting Lisa.
One day the cat had born dead kittens. Before Tilde could take them away
she got visitors. To get the dead kittens out of the way she put them
in a dish, put a cover over it and placed it into the pantry. During the
night August came home, halv drunken and hungry. He thought that that
which was in the dish was stuffed cabage and ate all with hearty appetite.
11. Sundsåsen. Here Ragnar Johansson, one of the
best hare hunters in the community, was born. He tracked the hares by
himself without a dog just that it was a little white frost on the ground.
This hunting technique he learned as a child when the people had to live
from that what the forest gave them.
12. Sund. Along the hole of the dung heap in old weather
forcasts the border between Vänern and Bergslags area was passing.
13. Där Ner i Humletorp. Down by the lake a place
for boates and on the other side the so called Call Stone was situated
from where one could call for boates to cross the lake. Even news were
called out here.
14. Höjdbäcken. The river floated along the
way to Trollebo. Here was Humletorp’s mill.
15. Trollebo. An old building for different kinds of
activities.
16. Porsmyra. Probably this moor got its name because
many plants, called pors, are growing there.
17. Hômmelbomyra. This moor got its name because
there are bumblebbee’s nests.
18. Kôja or Haglundskôja.
Raised by Gustav Haglund in Visterud. Originally built as a temporary
housing for forest works.
19. Bergsbrôtan. This once was a big village in
the forest south of lake Skagsjö. Today only a few houses are still
in their original condition. But they give a good picture how the crofter’s
holding looked in a past time.
20. Döperlanna. At this part of the lake the Baptist
church had often baptismal services.
21. The origin farmyard of the once very large farm Skagsjö.
To this beside the present farm Skacksjö also Visterud, Visteberg,
Nolbergsviken, Sandviken and half of the present farm Bogerud belonged.
The farm was probably called „Där Sör i Skackssjö“.
22. Där Öst i Skacksjö. Here lived a man,
of whom they thought having been Selma Lagerlöfs youthful passion.
Officialy she went over the hill to visit her friend Ingrid Nilsson in
Visteberg but her main interest was Nils Johan Aronsson in Skacksjö.
This romance was finished by Selmas dominant mother.
23. Spängera or Spångbacka.
The name is due to, that once a plank lay over the river. The crofter’s
holding was inhabited of one of the cavaliers, Lille Ruster, in reality
Johan Thyberg.
24. Mosserudsmossen. Here somewhere in the moor lies
a home-distilling device. It was hidden during a round up around 1880
and never was found again. Who is finding it will get a prize of „Trillan
& Kyrkvägar“.
25. Sjömyrshag. Oskar Berglund was the last inhabitant
of this house. He died 1969. He was the last character in the community.
There exist unlimited tales about him and all are true. For the youth
he liked to talk with all details about all the women, which had desire
for him in the youth as well as in older days.
26. The crossing. Here Selma Lagerlöf’s and
Dan Andersson’s footpaths met. Selma went the so called Lake path,
which begins on the farm „Gata i Södra Ås“. Dan
went the so called „Bröttningsvägen“, which begins
on the farm „Hagen“. From this crossing both followed the
today nearly overgrown „Bröttningsvägen“ to southeast.
27. Jong-Lars sättra. Here in the old shed the youth
used to meet for dance at the beginning of the 20th century. A stone on
the place has the inscription „J. O. S. 1931“.
28. Gullklätten. A stony hill. Here it was not aloud
to pronounce the words woolf, bear or lynx because that could generate
a danger for the own animals. Probably this place was a sojourn for woolfs.
29. Kallkällbrôten. Here by the spring at
the side of the Lake path the brook „Åsbäcken“
has one of its sources.
30. Bönhusvägen. The track was beaten by the preacher Crying
Lars. He used his chronic cold to toss his snot on-to those which fell
asleep during his preach.
31. Sjövägen. Originally the track began on
the farm „Gata i Sädra Ås“. It was a connecting
track for the inhabitants of Ås to their fishing grounds at Skagsjö.
The track reaches the crofters holding „Sjömyrshag“.
32. Södra Ås cholera cemetery. Only three
persons died during the cholera epedemy 1850. One was prepared for the
worth but the other prepared cholera cemeteries were never needed.
33. Dunderkul. The track leading to here is exactly described
in Selma lagerlöfs novel ?. It even was a part of the so called iron
track from the ironwork in Gårdsjö.
34. Korterud. Here lived the old Olof Wiklund. At his
time he was indicated as the father of the girl in Selma Lagerlöfs
novel „Tösen från Stormyrstorp“ but the neighbours’s
wife knew that he was as innocent as a rotten hurdle pole.
35. Gersbäcken.Here the brook is passing the so
called „Koporten“ (cow gate), a tunnel under the way so the
cattle could graze on both sides of the way.
36. Korterudsåsen. On the hill was Älvbäck’s
dance floor.
37. Gersbackstorpet. Here Gers-Malvin lived, at her time
a obliging women.
38. Bogerud's dance floor. Here Selma Lagerlöfs
foster son had an unsuccessful flirt.
39. Bogerud. The old school house, wich name really was
Alkärrsruds school.
40. Nolbergsviken. Here was a mill, which belonged to
the farm and later Nolbergsfors Sägewerk.
41. Medskog's mill. A mill only in use when it was a
lot of water in the brook. Often the moores along the brook were damed
up to get water reserves.
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